Identifier: newcastlehistori00albe (find matches)
Title: New Castle, historic and picturesque
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Albee, John, 1833-1915
Subjects: Historic buildings -- New Hampshire New Castle (N.H.)
Publisher: Boston (Press of Rand Avery Supply Company)
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d taken a much longer one, if not as cele-brated. On the loth of December, 1774:, he rode express fromBoston to Portsmouth, dispatched by the Boston Commit-tee of Safety, to inform the similar organization in Portsmouthof the new order of the British, that no gunpowder or militarystores should be exported to America. No doubt this informa-tion was coupled with advice to secure the gunpowder at FortWilliam and Mary, before the arrival of a large garrison, reportedalso, by Paul Revere, to be on its way. Therefore, the next night,or next day (the 14th), the Portsmouth Sons of Liberty, withthe patriots of New Castle, in all about four hundred, undercommand of Maj. John Sullivan and Capt. John Langdon* — hewho afterward offered his hard money, plate, and seventyhogsheads of Tobago rum to the service of the State; firstpresident of the United States Senate and governor of NewHampshire — proceeding to the fort by water, as there were then * Some authorities say Capt. John Pickering also.
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HISTOBIC AND PICTURESQUE 23 no bridges, invested it and summoned Capt. John Cochran andhis five soldiers to surrender. However, it was not the officersand men, nor yet the fort they came for, but its one hundredbarrels of powder, which they carried away and secreted underDurham meeting-house. The subsequent history of this pow-der is equally interesting with its capture; for most of it wasused at Bunlver Hill, being carted there by oxen all the way fromDurham town, just in season to be served to the soldiers on theeve of the engagement; and the last ounce of it was fired in1800, from the shotgun formerly belonging to Sir WilliamPepperell, and found as fatal to the Madbury gray squirrels usit had been to King Georges red-coats. Paul Reveres ride, the expedition and capture of the fort, thesubsequent service of the powder in the first battle of the Revo-lution, and its final peaceful report in the Madbury woods, takentogether do make a suggestive and poetic story. There is also acomic a

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